Bad traders

'Good to go' is a difficult term to define, you might have meant ready to be fitted and used as Ed suggests, he might have meant they didn't need truing or new spokes or anything, unless you asked specifically it's not a given.

But precisely because of the vague nature of the term 'good to go' maybe he should have mentioned the wheel nuts and tube.

I wouldn't say either of you is being a dick (and I wouldn't say it's enough to warrant the seller being labelled a bad trader by any means), it just sounds like a misunderstanding.

Thats why I thought I would ask instead of being "THIS GUY IS A DICK ETC ETC".

I will wait and he see what he says, he might be nice and give me a couple of quid back to cover nuts/tube.